Posts Tagged "gender"

This paper covers issues relating to improving the access of information by woman with disability, and engaging stakeholders in Indonesia who are responsible for gender and disability issues. Nowadays, the gender movement in Indonesia is growing so fast. People can see woman in many positions across all sectors. Not only in low income sector where woman usually contribute, but also in higher positions as decision makers. Even though Indonesia is the biggest Muslim society, it’s not a big deal to have a woman as leader.

Adelaide – I love almost all the session in these 12 weeks courses. I learn so many new things about domestic violence, child, gender analysis, and leadership in intensive training. It enhances my knowledge about gender and disability, and realizes me to give more attention to women with disabilities as well. Because as young leader who working with youth with disability and information resources issue, I comprehend that I missed the...

Adelaide – In this 3 months fellowship program, we did many various activities. There are Intensive Training, Field visits, Guest Speaker, and Mentoring sessions, Leadership networking sessions, writing policy brief sessions, Action Plans sessions, Symposium, and some Social activities. Those activities relate to each other and generally improve my leadership skills and knowledge regarding gender and disabilities. The first main activity...

Nowadays, advertisement is something important to the mostly of mass media. It supports the mass media by sponsoring them to keep in circulation. As the compensation, the company or institution that pays certain mass media to put their ads on it will get more customers who see the ads. Moreover, the advertiser also makes the ads as attractive as possible, and one of the tricks is by using woman as the model. This is a common phenomenon in our advertising world. The advertiser often uses Woman as the model even though the product is not aimed to woman kind. Some feminist consider this as the form of woman exploitation, because the company “sell” the woman’s body to market the product. However, Woman’s body exploitation could also give woman any benefits such as the freedom to express themselves, access the public area, get a better finance, and build the gender equality between man and woman.